Someone finishes your book, loves it, and would happily buy the next one. You have no way to reach them, because the retailer keeps that relationship. An email list is the only audience in publishing that's actually yours, and it moves with you between retailers, genres and years. That's the real job of an author site. Everything else is secondary.
Not a business card. Four jobs, in this order.
Amazon has your customers, you don't. A reader who finished your book and loved it is the single easiest sale for book two, and you have no way to reach them. An email list is the only asset in publishing that moves with you between retailers, genres and years.
People search your name after hearing you on a podcast, seeing the book in a shop, or being handed it by a friend. If what they find is someone else's LinkedIn or a dead Goodreads page, that moment is wasted. Your site should be the first result for your own name.
For nonfiction and authority books this is the whole point. Events, media, speaking, a proper bio, contact that actually works. It's what a conference organiser or a journalist checks before they get in touch.
Buy links to every retailer, not just one. Readers are loyal to their store and their device. A page that only links to Amazon loses the Kobo reader, and the one who wants it from their local bookshop.
Author sites tend to fail slowly, through neglect. So they're built to be low maintenance.
Every month it sits in the drawer is a month nobody reads it. Tell us where the book is at and we'll give you a straight answer on what it needs.
Your domain, your hosting, your mailing platform, all registered in your name. You should be able to take the whole thing elsewhere without asking anyone's permission. If a web company won't set it up that way, that's the answer to a different question.
You've probably heard that publishing services take your money, take your rights and go quiet. The industry earned that reputation. So here's how we work instead.
Your rights, your royalties, your files. Nothing we make gets licensed back to us.
Scope in writing first. No work starts on a handshake and a number that moves later.
Source files, print ready files, accounts and logins. All handed over, all in your name.
If your book doesn't need a service, we'll say so. That's cheaper for you and better for us.
Real books we've worked on. Covers, interiors and distribution, all of them out in the world.
Every month it sits in the drawer is a month nobody reads it. Tell us where the book is at and we'll give you a straight answer on what it needs.
Five stages, and you sign off at every one. Nothing moves to the next stage until you've said yes to the last.
Tell us where the book is and what you want it to do. We'll tell you what it actually needs.
Scope and price agreed in writing before anyone starts. You know the number up front.
Editing, layout, cover, whatever the scope says. You approve each stage as it lands.
Final proof on the typeset pages, plus a physical proof copy before anything gets printed at volume.
Retailer setup, metadata, categories and keywords. Then the files and logins come to you.
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